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vice presidential vacancies  

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  • When the United States is without a sitting vice president. The vice presidency becomes vacant when the vice president dies, resigns, or is impeached and removed, or when the vice president succeeds to the presidency after the president dies, resigns, or is impeached and removed. [Source: Student's Guide to the Presidency; Vice Presidential Vacancies]

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